Priapeia

Priaepia

by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers

  1. Carved out of any wood thou please to take;
  2. But 'tis engendered by live cypress-tree
  3. Which fears nor hundred ages fully told
  4. Nor the decaying of long, drawn-out eld.
  5. Dread this (O evil one!) whoe'er thou be!
  6. For an thou injure with thy greedy hand
  7. The least of bunches by this vine-stock borne
  8. Shall spring (howe'er thou may oppose) for thee
  9. A fig-tree grafted from this cypress-stem.
  1. A robber famed for greed exceeding wonder
  2. (Eke a Cilician) would this garden plunder;